MIT Literacy
Evolution of Media
Media Triangle
Codes and Conventions of Media
Module 2
100
This is a 21st-century approach to education.

What is Media Literacy?

100

Hearing is the dominant sense of this age of media.

What is the Tribal Age?

100

The three main areas of the Media Triangle.

What are Media Text, Audience, and Production?

100

This type of conventions is closely linked with audience expectations.

What is Genre Conventions?

100

Disinformation is a/n ______ of media.

What is abuse? (Misinformation is misuse, disinformation is abuse.)

200

Creating a slideshow presentation for MIL class is an example of this type of literacy.

What is Technology Literacy?

200

This is the age of sound and tactile sense of reception.

What is the Digital Age?

200

Analyzing its category and finding what it portrays or values falls under this area of the media triangle.

What is Media Text?

200

Bold red font on a poster that reads “SALE – 50% OFF!”

What is a Written Code?

200

This is defined as taking advantage of another person’s trust or vulnerability on the Internet.

What is Online Exploitation?

300

Sana evaluates how memes about natural disasters might affect the seriousness with which people treat the issue. This example showcases this type of literacy.

What is Media Literacy?

300

In the Infrastructure age, physical space is transformed into what?

What is cyberspace?

300

This can negotiate meaning and form different interpretations.

What is Audience?

300

Cause-and-effect and point-of-view fall under this type of conventions.

What is Story Conventions?

300

An anonymous blog run by a student posts that a teacher is “dating a student secretly.” The post spreads fast, though no evidence exists. This showcases this type of media abuse.

What is defamation?

400

Hanbin compares three different online sources about climate change, checking authorship, publication date, and citations before deciding which one to trust. This example showcases this type of literacy.

What is Information Literacy?

400

Board games fall under the types of media for this age.

What is the Print Age of Media?

400

By attracting nostalgic millennials and curious Gen Z audiences through the pink aesthetic, the Barbie movie campaign targets this area of the triangle.

What is Audience?

400

A wedding dress worn by the bride in a TV drama.

What is a Symbolic Code?

400

The ________ effect is the result of desensitization, or being less affected by seeing violence in your environment.

What is bystander?

500

This is the foundation of UNESCO’s MIL model and represents types of media.

What is Institutions?

500

Woozi writing his lyrics down for the first time falls under which age of media?

What is the Literacy Age?

500

When advertisements focus on brand recall, what area of the triangle are they prioritizing?

What is Production?

500

Ominous background music playing during a suspenseful scene.

What is a Technical Code?

500

This fundamental element of Media and Information Literacy understands that media influences attitudes, behaviors, lifestyles, and cultural norms.

What is An Awareness of The Impact of Media?